The Genesis of Gender
with Dr. Abigail Rine Favale

The Genesis of Gender

Guest: Dr. Abigail Rine Favale

What is the gender paradigm? Does the human body have something to say about human personhood? Can good Catholics be good feminists?

Dr. Abigail Rine Favale, professor in the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame and author of The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory, discusses these questions and many others with Franciscan University Presents host Father Dave Pivonka, TOR, president of Franciscan University of Steubenville, and panelists Dr. Scott Hahn and Dr. Regis Martin of Franciscan University’s Theology Department.

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